Elon Musk's tech allies miffed about Twitter subpoenas
Elon Musk's wealthy high tech allies don't seem too happy about receiving subpoenas from Twitter as part of the company's legal battle with the Tesla CEO.
Aug 2, 2022
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Internet
Flight frenzy: Pelosi Taiwan trip swamps plane tracker
Hundreds of thousands of people tuned in to a flight tracking website Tuesday anxious to find out whether US official Nancy Pelosi was in fact going to Taiwan, in defiance of China's angry protests.
Aug 2, 2022
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Business
Uber's stock surges on positive trends despite big Q2 loss
Uber's effort to meld its pioneering ride-hailing service with food and freight delivery showed progress during the past quarter even though the company sustained a huge loss stemming from a sharp decline in its outside investments.
Aug 2, 2022
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Electronics & Semiconductors
Researchers engineer biofilm capable of producing long-term, continuous electricity from your sweat
Researchers at the University of Massachusetts Amherst recently announced that they have figured out how to engineer a biofilm that harvests the energy in evaporation and converts it to electricity. This biofilm, which was ...
Aug 2, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
Researchers propose affordable and sustainable alternative to lithium-ion batteries
Concerns regarding scarcity, high prices, and safety regarding the long-term use of lithium-ion batteries has prompted a team of researchers from Rensselaer Polytechnic Institute to propose a greener, more efficient, and ...
Aug 2, 2022
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Engineering
Researchers improve cement with shrimp shell nanoparticles
Putting nanoparticles from shrimp shells into cement paste made the material significantly stronger—an innovation that could lead to reduced seafood waste and lower carbon emissions from concrete production.
Aug 2, 2022
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Engineering
A crab-inspired artificial vision system for both terrestrial and aquatic environments
To efficiently navigate real-world environments, robots typically analyze images collected by imaging devices that are integrated within their body. To enhance the performance of robots, engineers have thus been trying to ...
Electronics & Semiconductors
New technique protects data on solid-state drives from radiation
A new method of radiation-resistant computer data storage called watermark storage that's been developed by a University of Alabama in Huntsville (UAH) professor leading a student team has direct applications in the nuclear ...
Aug 2, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
CO2 price as an instrument for a climate-neutral heat sector
Heating with oil and gas in Germany is becoming more expensive, and this was the case even before the Russian war in Ukraine. In the future, heating and cooling systems in buildings should no longer emit CO2, which is why ...
Aug 2, 2022
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Energy & Green Tech
SLOPE platform guides equitable clean energy planning
In 2020, more than a quarter of all U.S. households reported keeping their homes at an unsafe temperature due to energy cost concerns or having difficulty paying energy bills, according to a U.S. Energy Information Administration ...
Aug 2, 2022
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